Artist: Romare Bearden (1914 - )
Nationality: American
Movement: Modern American School
Media: Painting
Influences:

Biography:
Romare Howard Bearden’s family settled in Harlem, New York when he was three years old. Bearden attended New York University to study medicine where he began drawing cartoons and worked as the art editor for the student publication, Medley. He eventually switched his career path to art and took evening classes at the Art Students’ League under George Grosz. He served in the military during WWII, and then traveled to Europe to study at the Sorbonne. After returning to the States in 1952, Bearden began producing collages as well as painting urban landscapes and scenes.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (16)
Click the artwork titles below to see actual examples of artwork or works of art relevant to works by Romare Bearden.

-
Pilate (Misty Island), Romare Bearden (United States, 1914 - 1988)  (Artist), 1979, Lithograph
The Metropolitan Museum of Art -
The Block, 1971 Romare Bearden (American, 1911-1988)Cut and pasted papers on Masonite; Overall: H. 48,
-
Romare Bearden - The Street 1964 collage Milwaukee Art Museum American
-
Romare Bearden - Noah, Third Day 1972 collage, acrylic on High Museum of Art American
-
Romare Bearden - Summertime 1967 collage on board Saint Louis Art Museum American
-
Romare Bearden - In the Garden 1980 lithograph on paper The Art Gallery University of Maryland American
-
Romare Bearden - Autumn of the Red Hat 1982 collage and watercol Virginia Museum of Fine Arts American
-
Romare Bearden - At Five in the Afternoon 1946 oil on board Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art at The University of Oklahoma American
-
Romare Bearden - At the Clef Club 1975 Watercolor Arkansas Arts Center American
-
Romare Bearden - Wrapping it up at the Lafayette 1974 collage, acrylic, an Cleveland Museum of Art American
-
Romare Bearden - Gospel Song 1969 mixed media on board Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester American
-
Romare Bearden - Cotton Workers 1936-1946 gouache on board University of California, Berkeley Art Museum American
-
Bearden Romare - Falling Star 1979 lithograph Telfair Museum of Art American
-
Romare Bearden - Carolina Shout 1911-88 The Mint Museums American
-
Romare Bearden - Evening Limited to Memphis 1987 painting and paper c Hickory Museum of Art American
-
Bearden Romare - Head of John the Baptist 1974 Lithograph Telfair Museum of Art American

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (11)
Click on any of the links below to read about artnews or exhibitions related to Bearden

Detroit Institute of Art: A Cultural Heritage: Selected Works of African American Art from the DIA's Collection
...
ASU Art Museum, Nelson Fine Arts Center: Rhapsody: Selections from Valley Collections
Rhapsody includes works by Emma Amos, Benny Andrews, Radcliffe Bailey, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Romare Bearden, John Biggers, Elizabeth Catlett, Michael Ray Charles, Robert Colescott, Renée Cox, Charles Gaines, Sam Gilliam, Eugene Grigsby, ...
Milwaukee Art Museum: The Last Show of the Century: A History of the 20th Century Through Its Art
Twentieth-century artists have been keenly aware of their social environment, perhaps to a greater degree than artists in any other century. Using a time line as its basis, this exhibition will count off the major historical ev...
Tacoma Art Museum: Walter O. Evans Collection of African American Art
Evans, who grew up in Georgia and South Carolina, became interested in art when he began visiting museums while he was in the U.S. Navy during the ...
Memphis Brooks Museum: In the Spirit of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"It is an honor for the Brooks to be selected as a venue for this important and moving Smithsonian exhibition," said Kaywin Feldman, Director of the Brooks. "We hope that no child in our community will miss this unique opportunity to experience Ki...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Howard University, Department of Art: Annual James A. Porter Colloquium on African American Art
To Register or Receive More Information, Please Contact:
Robert Hall, Mark Williams or Jennifer Morris
900 Jefferson Drive, SW, Room 1130, MRC 31
Washington, D.C.
202/357-4500 (phone) or 202/357-2636 (fax) James A. Port...
Cleveland Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence's Toussaint
Lawrence, who moved to Harlem as a teenager in 1930, was influenced and stimulated by the artists, writers, and philosophers of the Harlem Renaissance, among them Romare Bearden, Langston Hughes, and W. E. B. DuBois, who fostered pride...
Norton Museum of Art: Jacob Lawrence: The Toussaint L'Ouverture Series
Born in 1917 in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Jacob Lawrence was raised in Harlem where he not only witnessed the poverty and prejudice that most African-Americans faced in th...
Studio Museum in Harlem: Frederick J. Brown: Portraits in Jazz, Blues, and Other Icons
In the late 1970s and early 1980s Brown emerged as a driving force in the resurgence of expressive figuration in theinternational art world. He has combined his interest in jazz and blues music, Native American and African culture, primitive folk ...
Frist Center for the Visual Arts: Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist
In conjunction with Aaron Douglas: African American Modernist, the Frist Center has organized Fisk University’s Art Faculty: The Legacy of Aaron Douglas on view Friday, Jan. 11 through May 11, 2008, in the Conte Community Artists Gallery. With w...

Further Artwork and Information:

Romare Bearden Online
Welcome to THE ROMARE BEARDEN FOUNDATION Website!
National Gallery of Art - The Art of Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
SFMOMA | Exhibitions | Exhibition Overview: The Art of Romare Bearden
Amazon.com: Books: Romare Bearden
Romare Bearden
Romare BeardenArt Images
Marshall Arts Presents Romare Bearden

Search the Art History Database for artists, titles, media, year, and other indepth information: